Most of Friday afternoon’s rain soaked interior areas and as far east as Florida’s Turnpike, but not much made it to the coast. Storms sputtered out as they tracked east. Palm Beach International Airport tacked on 0.11 of an inch (0.12 of an inch in Palm Beach) to its daily total through 9 p.m.

Total rainfall for the week at PBIA was 3.71 inches. That compares to a weekly total of 3.37 inches in Palm Beach, 2.18 inches in Miami and 0.80 of an inch in Fort Lauderdale.

National Weather Service forecasters in Miami said drier weather should move into South Florida next week, but afternoon showers are still possible, particularly later in the week.

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JUPITER’S STRONG STORMS: The planet, that is. Yes, the town in North Palm Beach County was hammered with heavy rain this week, but there was a massive “radio storm” on the planet 365 million miles away.

An amateur astronomer recorded the sounds produced by the event on Tuesday using a shortwave radio telescope in New Mexico. The audio has been posted on Spaceweather.com.

The radio storms are triggered by “natural radio lasers” within the planet’s magnetic field, says NASA writer Tony Phillips.

“Electrical currents flowing between Jupiter’s upper atmosphere and the volcanic moon Io can boost these emissions to power levels easily detected by ham radio antennas on Earth.”

Caught by a radio telescope, the short bursts and long bursts can sound like woodpeckers, whales and waves hitting the beach, he says.